downcase

 

 

Description

The downcase function converts upper case Character or Strings into lower case characters.

When to use

Use the downcasefunction is used to convert upper case Character to lower case characters.

 

Syntax

(downcase char)

(downcase String)



Name Description AIS Types
char A character argument or String argumentString or Character


Returns:

A new Character or String with all the upper case characters in the original argument converted to lower case.

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

Example_String_downcase_001

These examples converts all uppercase characters into lowercase characters.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Symbol Character String Text
Character

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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